Hundreds of wildfires burning in Canada’s Northwest Territories have prompted emergency declarations and the evacuation of the capital city of Yellowknife by road and air.
But Canada is doing it’s part - they claim credit for all those forests as part of the climate change goal! (disclaimer: only when the trees are growing, not when they’re burning)
The problem is that the typical Republican does not believe this is related to climate change. When I suggested that my father-in-law laughed at me saying “yeah, everything is related to climate change huh?”
I have to admit I’m kind of with the conservatives on this. I mean, of course it’s an issues and humanitarian crisis and yet one more example why climate change is so important but ……
There’s already too much hyperbole here that makes me immediately want to discount this. Yeah, 20,000 is a lot of people to be affected but when you’re phrasing this as “entire cities” and “the capital city of the territory”, but the entire territory has fewer people than my “small suburb” ….
Edit to add: my university had a larger population than this “entire cities”. Can’t we talk about this serious issue without counter-productive hyperbole?
And as we enter the “Entire cities burning down” part of climate change the world will do… Absolutely nothing.
But Canada is doing it’s part - they claim credit for all those forests as part of the climate change goal! (disclaimer: only when the trees are growing, not when they’re burning)
Man that’s pretty disheartening. Guess I’ll just go to bed now.
The problem is that the typical Republican does not believe this is related to climate change. When I suggested that my father-in-law laughed at me saying “yeah, everything is related to climate change huh?”
I have to admit I’m kind of with the conservatives on this. I mean, of course it’s an issues and humanitarian crisis and yet one more example why climate change is so important but ……
There’s already too much hyperbole here that makes me immediately want to discount this. Yeah, 20,000 is a lot of people to be affected but when you’re phrasing this as “entire cities” and “the capital city of the territory”, but the entire territory has fewer people than my “small suburb” ….
Edit to add: my university had a larger population than this “entire cities”. Can’t we talk about this serious issue without counter-productive hyperbole?